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Great-Aunt Jill
@jillinmd.bsky.social
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Retired copyeditor, born & raised Here Near DC. Octogenarian. Owned by Zack, a special needs cat. INFJ.
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Great-Aunt Jill @jillinmd.bsky.social · Apr 2
A favorite #timelinecleanse of mine.
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It's #TuxieTuesday and Zack sends greetings to all.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Well, well, well. Looks like it's going to be a good day. G'mornin' ev'ybuddy.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
jillinmd.bsky.social
He said "the gentleman you just mentioned." Did he lose the thread and vamp?

#Maddow
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Well, when you put it that way...!
digitalscorpyun.bsky.social the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 21h
Let’s be clear: Musk isn’t a ‘white nationalist.’ He’s not from this nation. He’s a transnational white supremacist using tech infrastructure to amplify the same hierarchy across borders. #CallItWhatItIs #GlobalWhiteness
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
We have to ignore these men's foolish words. The Venn diagram circles for us and them not only don't overlap, they aren't even in the same county any more.
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21h
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Good morning to everybody and especially Pope Leo.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
jillinmd.bsky.social
G'mornin' ev'ybuddy. We won by the power of the desire for freedom. For some of us, anyway.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Goood mornin' all you watchers of Ken Burns's American Revolution. Tonight we win.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Today at lunch two friends said "There's corruption on both sides." I finally found the words to say that the Republicans are doing this and this and this, and there is no comparison. The table went silent for a moment and then they resumed their detailed discussion of jigsaw puzzles.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Their arguments are reaching the "Nyah, nyah, nyah" stage. We don't need no stinkin' words, our contempt can be served raw.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing “cute” responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Rev. Black in the head. Doc. 191- 3 at 162:21–165:17; Doc. 22-44 (Ex. 44 at 0:10–12, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). In another video shown to Bovino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, one of Plaintiffs’ declarants. Doc. 191-3 at 172:13–173:7; Doc. 22-45 (Ex. 45 at 0:19–30, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). But instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bovino denied it and instead stated that force was used against him.
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Techbros are trying to squeeze the humanity out of us because they have none. "If we don't understand it, you can't have it." Ones and zeroes only, no poetry or art.
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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g'mornin' ev'ybuddy. Easy come easy go.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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G'mornin'. I kinda fell asleep in the middle and left out a letter. Oh well.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
jillinmd.bsky.social
If this is another meaningless symbolic vote I think I'll scream. It's worse the hoarseness that follows.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Hey @ms.now I want to hear Jamie Raskin any time he speaks. Now, please.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Thank you @msnownews.bsky.social for covering the vote in the House.
Verizon will not give me C-Span unless it's one of my five "special" channels.
IMO it's my right as a resident of the United States to have access to Congress on TV but Verizon doesn't agree.
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
It's all here. It's complete. This is the history. Read it and weep.
gregolear.bsky.social Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 7d
"All the enablers of the current ruling party need to resign. This includes his vice president, the most ridiculous, reviled, mean-spirited, mendacious little prick ever to hold that office—and that office was held for eight years by Richard Nixon."
Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
I come to break the Orange Enchanter's spell and liberate you from his rough magic, so you can see things as they really are...and join me in demanding his immediate resignation.
gregolear.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Good morning, kind of, maybe not so much.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Made 3500 years ago, mesmerizing now. Humans are and always have been amazing creatures.
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8d
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Changing genres, I'm reading Arsenic and Adobo. I don't like foodie novels, but you gotta try something new, right?
The end of Chapter 18 brought me to tears.
Who knew?
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Good morning. Phooey, heck, darn, drat.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
Pluto TV is no longer available to me. The print on the guide is too small, I can't get a description to find out if I want to watch an episode, the interface has changed to something I can't figure out how to use even if I could read the words. I used to love Pluto, but that's gone.
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Good morning. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Gooood morning. After an hour with Verizon, during which I entertained the tech guy the best I could, I'm online and I've Wordled.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jillinmd.bsky.social
This photo was posted on my birthday. I'm honored.
debraceravolo.bsky.social Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · Sep 9
A beautiful spiral galaxy with many star birth regions in pink nebulosity. M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. 17 hours of total exposure times including hydrogen-alpha. Taken with my Ceravolo 300mm telescope at f/9 with an SBIG STX 16803 ccd camera.
#astrophotography #astronomy #galaxies
A beautiful spiral galaxy with many star birth regions in pink nebulosity. M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. 17 hours of total exposure times including hydrogen-alpha.
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM